Stumbled upon this via a different jalopnik post, via Digg...

 

 

https://jalopnik.com/the-tata-nano-is-way-better-than-the-worlds-cheapest-ca-1823653663

 

It seems like a fantastic town car which was ruined by stigma...

3 minutes ago, mac11irl said:

Stumbled upon this via a different jalopnik post, via Digg...

 

 

https://jalopnik.com/the-tata-nano-is-way-better-than-the-worlds-cheapest-ca-1823653663

 

It seems like a fantastic town car which was ruined by stigma...

Surely the world's 2nd UGLIEST car behind ssanyong Rhodius. Doesn't look like it would take a corner much above 40mph without tyres squealing in protest either. Think the basic version was about £1,200 in India to get them mobile.

If you read it, it was "a car to buy for 1 Lakh" which roughly made $2500 when the car was released.

It was to get typical moped wielding indian families into a safer mode of self transport (family of 4 on one scooter not ideal tbf..) and it managed to do that for a very small amount of money.

 

Id rather buy 4 Nanos than a 2nd hand Kadjar!

3 minutes ago, mac11irl said:

If you read it, it was "a car to buy for 1 Lakh" which roughly made $2500 when the car was released.

It was to get typical moped wielding indian families into a safer mode of self transport (family of 4 on one scooter not ideal tbf..) and it managed to do that for a very small amount of money.

 

Id rather buy 4 Nanos than a 2nd hand Kadjar!

Been to Kenya 7 times in the last 14 years and their road death numbers are similar to India due to the current craze for motorcycles (they're cheap) but unfortunately Matatu drivers (taxi) hate them as they are taking business from them and lorries bully everyone else on the road. In Kenya the size of your vehicle is directly related to your life expectancy.

Didn't it have a crash test survival rating slightly lower than a dozen eggs in a bucket of self tapping screws?

Just now, P6bJOHN said:

Didn't it have a crash test survival rating slightly lower than a dozen eggs in a bucket of self tapping screws?

SEE MY COMMENTS ABOVE AND DRAW YOUR OWN CONCLUSION.

I was thinking "do you want a car where your feet are the front crumple zone and your kids are the back one?"

1 minute ago, KenONeill said:

I was thinking "do you want a car where your feet are the front crumple zone and your kids are the back one?"

At least when the lorry coming at you squash's your Nano no need for 4 coffins for the departed family members as just have to bury the tin can you were travelling in.

I would proudly own and drive one in a heartbeat, its 10 times better and safer than any of the vehicles I owned for my first 10 years of driving.

 

The roads here in France are jam packed with look-alike vehicles that cost more than a mid range family MPV and are not a patch on that Tata, they are called vehicule sans permis and can be driven without a driving license, for the same reasons of snobbery they are only driven by serial alcoholics who will never be able to get their licenses back (they have to be alcohol free to retake the test) or those so incompetent or just plain ga-ga that they can never pass the driving test which if you saw how bad many drivers are you would realise that you have to be really really dangerous to not pass the test.

 

As a consequence these VSP's are driven by the most irrational people and everyone gives them a very wide berth, the insurance costs for them are 10 times what a driver of a family MPV would pay and they cost a fortune because they are all made domestically in low volumes, I am surprised that Tata did not import them here.

Favorite game to play when staggering back from the bar is to turn on its side every VSP that you see on the way home!!!